Romney's search for a VP appears to narrow — Mitt Romney's search for a running mate appears to have narrowed, as clues of whom Romney might select as his No. 2 begin to pile up in the media. — A campaign that prides itself on discipline had, to date, exacted tight control over the process …

Romney: “Marco Rubio Is Being Thoroughly Vetted” — Goes on record after ABC report. — (Getty Images / Win McNamee) — Mitt Romney makes it official: “Marco Rubio is being thoroughly vetted as part of our process,” he said today, hours after an ABC report said he was not being considered as Romney's running-mate.

Rubio Ally Fingers Romney Adviser As Possible Leak Source — Stevens worked for Charlie Crist, and Navarro says he may have an ax to grind. — (Reuters / Mark Makela) — A top ally to Marco Rubio suggested that a prominent Romney aide was the source of the ABC News story today that Romney …

Anti-Romney Protesters Say They're Paid To Heckle — Two protesters and an Obama official say “Good Jobs Now” protesters are compensated for their time. A protest leader denies it. — A few of the protesters outside Romney's rally, shortly before filing on to a charter bus parked down the street.

Andrea Mitchell airs full Romney remarks — On her show today, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell responded to criticism of the network's decision to run an edited tape of Mitt Romney's remarks about the Wawa convenience store chain, but the network has not clarified why it ran the edited version of the tape.

Wawa vs. the Post Office: Bus-Capade Update — [Update On the 33-page address-change form, please see this.] — I mentioned earlier that in his big rally on Saturday night at the historic Cornwall “iron furnace” near Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Mitt Romney used what he had learned during …

Grover Norquist's Endless Campaign — “Tell me something cheerful” is how Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, has started most of the conversations I've had with him over the past 20 years. Not last week. — Norquist has spent a quarter century getting American politicians …

The Right Shift — Good news: last month, for the first time in weeks, Congress passed a bill! And wait until you hear what you get: by a vote of 78 to 20, the Senate voted to extend the life of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. ... People, please! Control yourselves! — Yes, the Import-Export Bank.

Is the U.S. economy losing jobs again? — The private sector is not fine, as some extremely worrisome economic news today emphasizes. — The government's April Job Opening and Labor Turnover report was, in the words of JPMorgan economists, “soft, lending some credence to the view …

Obama's Puzzling Immigration Decision — President Obama made waves last week by announcing significant changes to the government's stance on the deportation of certain illegal immigrants. Most analysts portrayed the decision as a smart move to shore up Obama's flagging standing with Latino voters.

Obama: EU crisis could ‘have impact’ on reelection chances — President Obama said Tuesday that the economic crisis in Europe could “have some impact” on his reelection chances in November. — “I think it's fair to say that all these issues, economic issues, will potentially have some impact …